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名詞

spinny (plural spinnies)

1. Alternative spelling of spinney (“small copse or wood”)
   • 1857, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in Two Years Ago, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:

     The downs rise steep, crowned with black fir spinnies.

語源 2

From spin +‎ -y.

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形容詞

spinny (comparative spinnier, superlative spinniest)

1. (informal) Associated with spinning; moving with a spinning motion.
   • 1997, DAN Seemiller, M Holowchak, Winning Table Tennis: Skills, Drills, and Strategies - all 3 versions »

     The sound at contact should be solid and crisp, not “spinny.”

   • 2003, Ian S. Ginns, Stephen J. Norton, Campbell J. McRobbie, “Adding Value to the Teaching and Learning of Design and Technology”, in Pupils Attitudes Towards Technology Annual Conference June 2003, pages 115–118:

     “It is a spinny thing with wires in it, with the wires wrapped around something (coil) and N and S (unsure what N and S were)."

   • 2006, J Purkis, Finding a Different Kind of Normal: Misadventures with Asperger Syndrome:

     Then you got a double whammy - your eyes were full of orange and your head was spinny and dizzy.